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Percival P. Cassidy Percival P. Cassidy is offline
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Default Outlets -- which way?

On 12/05/06 09:46 pm Joe wrote:

Is there a "right" way for wall outlets to face?

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and why?


The manufacturer's catalogs, like Pass & Seymour/LeGrand, have
illustrations uniformly showing duplex outlets with grounds at the top.


And I just noticed that some of the spare outlets I have -- possibly
Pass & Seymour/Legrand -- are marked so that the writing is the right
way up only when the ground pin is uppermost.


Perce